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   "text": "Accuracy alone is insufficient for legal AI: a model must also be explainable before its outputs can be trusted in judicial settings.",
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   "text": "Post hoc explainability techniques do not by themselves establish trustworthiness; the explanations they produce must additionally be verified against human knowledge.",
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   "text": "When reputation is both the system's aggregation weight and the agent's optimization target, equilibrium behavior includes consistency, collaborative integrity, and systemic stewardship, so the agent learns not merely to perform well but to be trustworthy.",
   "abstract": "when reputation is both the system's aggregation weight and the agent's optimization target, the equilibrium behavior includes properties, such as consistency, collaborative integrity, systemic stewardship, that transcend narrow task optimization.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278",
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